The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 117
'Run for your life,' he whispered to his companion; 'I see the woman coming over the hill!'
Who acts: you, row, I, woman · What happens: run, whisper, see, come · To what, where: companion, woman, hill
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, row, I, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 2 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Run | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Run | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 companion | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companion | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Run | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 woman | acl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 hill | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hill | det |
| 22 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | for your life | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | row | row's companion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | present | I | the woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the woman not said here | the hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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